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" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

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" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "

" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "

" The United States is a madhouse. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

" We're not a democracy. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "

" Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

" The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. "

" American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. "

" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "

" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams. "